caldeiro

From Late Latin caldāria~caldārium (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Doublet of caldeira.

• IPA^(key): /kalˈdejɾo/

caldeiro m (plural caldeiros)

1. cauldron (a large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame)
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre

     a roasting jack and a sickle and a copper cauldron

   Díxolle a pota ao caldeiro: "Achégate aló que me luxas!" (proverb)

   The pot told the cauldron: "Go away, you're going to mess me up!" (the pot calling the kettle black)

2. bucket

• caldeira (“large cauldron”)
• caldeirada (“seafood stew”)
• carne ao caldeiro (“beef stew”, literally “meat on the cauldron”)

• caldo (“broth”)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “caldeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “caldeir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caldeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caldeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caldeiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN